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UNITED STATES PATENT OEE-ICE,

FRANKLIN R. WHITE, OF WATERBURY, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO THE PATENTBUTTON COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

eARMENT-FASTENER.

SPECIFICATION forming' part of Letters Patent N0. 652,939, dated J'uly3, 1900.

Application filed April 10, 1900.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANKLIN R. WHITE, a citizen of the United States,and a resident of Waterbury, in the county of, New Haven and State ofConnecticut, have made and invented certain new and useful Improvementsin Garment-Fasteners, of 'which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to an improvement in garment-fasteners, and moreparticularly to that kind or style thereof consisting of a hook and abar used or employed for fastening the ends of a waistband of a pair oftrousers in lieu of a button.

The object of this invention is to provide a fastener which will besimpleand cheap to manufacture, of but few parts, and which may beeasily and readily secured to the cloth or fabric by means ofself-piercing tacks or rivets, the several parts being so constructedand arranged that the piercing ends of the tacks or rivets will be upsetby the metal of which the hook or bar is formed and by which metal saidoverturned ends will be concealed or hidden from view.

With these and other ends in view my invention consists in certain novelfeatures of construction, as will be hereinafter fully described, andpointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a View of a portion of thewaistband and flap of a pair of trousers having my improved fastenersecured thereto. Fig. 2 is a sectional view of the hook, taken on theline 2 2 of Fig.- l. Fig. 3 is a similar view of a modilied form of thehook, showing the manner of securing the same to the cloth or fabric.Fig. 4 is a detached plan View of the hook shown in'Fig. l, and Fig. 5an edge view thereof. Figs. 6 and '7 are plan views of modied forms ofsaid hook, Fig. S beinga sectional view of that shown in Fig. 6. Fig. 9shows detached views of the bar shown in Fig. l, and Figs. l0, ll, 12,and 13 are views of modified forms thereof.

Referring to the drawings, A B represent the ends 0f a waistband of apair of trousers or other garment, the bar C being secured to the end Aand the hook D attached to the end B, the bar and hook being constructedand arranged to engage with each other when it Serial No. 12,301. (Nomodel.)

is desired to fasten the ends of the band together.

I am aware of the fact that, broadly considered, a hook and bar are notnew, a number of different forms thereof having been made and used inlieu of a button. In some instances these bars and hooks have been madewith piercing prongs on their ends adapted to be forced through thecloth and overturned to secure them in place, while in other instancesthe attaching ends have been fitted with closed eyelets, into which thefastening tack or rivet enters and is upset. Objections have been madeto these forms in that in some instances the fastener is notsufficiently secure to withstand the strain imposed upon it, and inother-instances the cost thereof has been such as to render itcommerciallyimpracticable. In my improved fastener, however, I haveovercome these objections by turning or bending a portion of the metalover and upon itself, the metal of the faceplate of the bar or hookacting as an anvil to i bend or upset the under plate, acting as ananchorage for said upset end of the tack,there which the cloth isclamped or fastened to prevent the fastener from being torn from thefabric and at the same time overcoming the necessity of using a thirdpiec'e in the form of a die or closed eyelet, and thereby effecting amaterial saving in the cost of the finished article.

In Fig. 2 of the drawings I have shown a sectional view of the hook,which consists of the plate l and plate 2,-the latter being bent backupon itself to formthe hook proper,the central portion 3 of which may becut out, if desired,as shown in Figs. 4, 5, 6, and 7. The ends of theplate l are bent or folded in their length, as illustrated in Figs.2,4,and 5, and are so shaped as to form pockets or cups 4, receiving oraccommodating the upset ends of the tacks or rivets 5, a central opening6 being formed in said pockets or depressions to allow of the pas.- sageof said tack, as indicated in Fig. 2.v In this my preferred constructionof hook the plate by providing wide bearing-surfaces between y l isinserted between the two thicknesses of IOO on the inner surface of thewaistband. The pointed tacks or rivets 5 are forced through the cloth orfabric a, through the openings 6 in the depressions 4 of the plate 1,and striking the latter said piercing ends of the tacks or rivets areupset, as s'hown in Fig. 2, thereby tightly and securely fastening thehook to the band, the cloth or fabric being clamped between the largehead of the tack 5 and the bent-over ends of the plate 1. Instead ofbending the ends of the plate 1 in their length, as above described, thehook may be shaped as shown in Fig. 7-that is, contracted and bent over,as indicated at 7-which bentover end 7 may be perforated and cupped, asin the case of one of the ends of plate 1, (illustrated in Figs. 2, 4,and 5,) it being understood, of course, that in the case of the hookillustrated in Figs. 2, 4, and 5 two fastening tacks or rivets will beemployed and in the case of the hook shaped as shown in Fig. 7 but onetack or rivet will be employed. Again, instead of bending the ends ofthe plate 1 in their length, as before described, they may be bent orfolded edgewise, as illustrated in Figs. 3, 6, and 8, and, as showntherein, instead of cupping or depressing the bent end, an opening 8might be made therein to form a bar 9, around which the end of the tackmay be curled, as illustrated in Fig. 3, the face-plate of the hookacting as an anvil, as in the former instance, for the purpose ofoverturning or curling the tack.

In Fig. 9 I have shown a plan and edge views of the bar, consisting ofthe face-plate 10, having the ends bent or folded over in their lengthand depressed to form pockets or cups 11, having a central perforation12, these ends being similar to the depressed and folded ends of theplate 1 of the hook. As shown in Fig. 10, the bar may consist of theplates 13 and 14, made in one piece, and have their ends soldered orfastened, as indicated at 15. When the bar is shaped as shown in thisfigure, there will be but one depression or pocket formed at about thecenter of the length of the plate 14, as indicated at 16, or, asillustrated in Fig. 11, two holes or openings 17 may be made, forming acentral bar 18, around which the tack or fastener may be curled, as inthe case of the hook illustrated in Figs. 3 and 6, or, again, asillustrated in Fig. 12, the ends of the bar may be' bent or curled intheir length and formed with an opening 19, leaving the edge of thefolded end 2O in the shape of a bar, around which the tack may becurled, as in the case of the hook illustrated in Figs. 3 and 6, beforereferred to. Again, as shown in Fig. 13, the ends of the bar may berounded, as indicated at 21, and provided withthe hole or opening 22,these rounded and folded ends forming pockets or cups for the upset endof the tack or fastener. In all these instances it will be seen that themetal of the face-plate, either of the bar or hook, acts as an anvil toupset or curl the piercing end of the tack or fastener, while thefolded-over ends or portions of the metal act as an anchorage for saidupset ends, thus differing from all other forms of fasteners of which Iam aware.

In practice I have found that this form of fastener is cheap tomanufacture, as each part thereof-that is, either the hook or bar-may bestamped or struck up from a single piece of metal, and that it can bereadily, easily, and firmly attached to the cloth or fabric.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A garment-fastener, consisting of a hook and bar, the face-plate ofeither of which is bent or folded over, and acts as an anvil to upset orcurl the piercing end of a tack or rivet, the said folded or bentportion acting as an anchorage for said upset or curled tack,substantially as described.

2. A garment-fastener consisting of a hook or bar, either of which isformed with a faceplate having a portion thereof bent or folded over,said face-plate acting as an anvil to upset or curl the piercing end ofa tack or rivet, said bent or folded portion being perforated, incombination with a tack or rivet, adapted to pass through saidperforation and be curled or upset by said face-plate, upon or aroundsaid folded-over portion ,substantially as described.

3. A garment-fastener, consisting of a hook and bar, the face-plate ofeither of which has its ends bent over, perforated and depressed to formpockets, in combination with tacks or rivets, adapted to pass throughsaid perforations, and be upset within said pockets by said face-plate,substantially as described.

Signed at Waterbury, in the county of New Haven and State ofConnecticut, this 7th day of March, A. D. 1900.

FRANKLIN R. WHITE.

Witnesses:

JAY H. HART, AGNES I. WALKER.

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